the conductor talked to the ork tra, apologized to the audience of more than 3,000 people. he glaring lee asked the culprit to fess up and please turn it off. it is the first time in history that the new york philharmonic that that has been disturbed in that way. turn off the iphone. i've been guilty of that on my own show. bill: you've be warned folks, watch you tomorrow. martha: by bye. have a good day. jon: terrible damage in rutter tpoerld nort rutherford north carolina. it is believed a tornado touched down. people living there say they cannot remember a time when they had a tornado in january. at least ten buildings damaged, at least 15 people hurt, all in the area of burke county, and

that area of north carolina. it happened about an hour's drive north of charlotte. some people initially were trapped in their homes. roofs came off, buildings collapsed, so this was, if it was in fact a twister it was a fairly powerful one. you can see the evidence of that just from this new video just into us now in the fox newsroom. we'll continue to keep an eye on the assessments coming out of the western carolinas, where ten people were hurt in ellenboro where these powerful storms record through yesterday, possibly a twister. more coming up. just when you think it's safe to stick your head out the door you get something like that roaring through. good morning to you. brand-new developments in the g.o.p. race for the white house. i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. we are here in the fox newsroom,

"happening now" nine days before the first in the south primary, nearly all the republican candidates are trekking through south carolina today, while early voting is already underway in florida, even though that primary isn't until the end of the month. tens of thousands of folks have sent in their absentee ballots, so it is ongoing at this time. mitt romney is gearing up for a red light lee in the sunshine state. he's headed toward the sun, probably a wise move in the winter, right, jon. jon: sound good to me. the real clear average of political polls shows mitt romney with a more than 9-point lead over newt gingrich, his closes rival. and gingrich who want held a big lead in that state is going after romney hard, releasing a 30-minute video attacking him, portraying romney as a corporate raider at the time he headed the investment firm bain capital. jenna: mike emanuel is live to tell us more about this. tell us what has evolved and what to expect.

>> reporter: mitt romney would obviously like to change the subject, he'd like to move on and sell his pro-life conservative credentials to the people of south carolina which he obviously wants to win. he did talk a bit about his work at bain capital. he says every job lost is a tragedy, and no surprise he emphasized the positive. the audio is not great, but take a listen. >> the reality is in the private sector, that there are some businesses that are growing and thriving, and we were fortunate enough to be able to be part of that in a small way and there are some businesses that have to be cutback in order to survive and to try to make them stronger. sometimes you're successful with that and sometimes you're not. >> reporter: some conservatives have been critical of the line of attack from former speaker newt gingrich foray tacking romney on his work at bain capital. the speaker says he has very legitimate concerns about it. here is a sample of what he's saying on the issue today. >> you've had no evidence, you have no proof, they are a totally private firm. they have never explained what they did.

i don't have any question about the process of entrepreneur ail conservatism. there are certain cases that don't look like. >> reporter: he thinks there are still legitimate questions to be asked. jenna. jenna: i'm sure we'll be hearing some of those questions in the future as well. mike, what are some of the other candidates doing today to boost their chances in this critical primary, kind of get into the fight themselves, because obviously this question about bain capital for romney has really dominated a lot of the news coverage? >> reporter: the other candidates are out crisscrossing south carolina hoping it will make a different. former senator rick santorum has been holding a town hall in sun city focusing on faith, family and freedom, sell his social conservative tre credentials to folks there. texas governor rick perry pulled out of new hampshire to get to work in south carolina.

he did a meet and greet and believes about 60% of south carolina voters can still be swayed. former utah governor jon huntsman trying to create a little momentum after new hampshire attended a breakfast this morning. when we get the pictures we will show them to you. jenna: we have a tea party panel coming up, mike, and we have one tea partier that is willing to publicly endorse santorum. it will be interesting to see where that vote goes in south carolina, an important one. mike emanuel thank you so much. live from washington for us today. jon: he is known as a conservative king maersk maker, and jim demint's support is coveted by most republican candidates. two of his closes informal advisers have endorsed mitt romney, one of them even jumping ship from the perry camp. the senator himself though is not tipping his hands-on fox and friend this morning. >> are you going to endorse mitt romney? sph no. >> but your staffers have, some of your staffers have. >> i've told my staff they can

support any candidate they want. it's always been that way in elections, some go one way and some the other. there are some working for different teams right now. jon: ab stoddard is associate editor of the hill. this is kind of sur just to me. i know that politics changes by the minute. dent endorse mitt romney last time around? >> he did, and he said afterwards, what is interesting is that mitt romney came under fire for so-called romney care, his healthcare plan he passed in massachusetts in this cycle four years ago. senator demint did endorse them and said in late 2010 that he would have problems endorsing him again because of that very issue. as you can see there is a lot of pressure from conservatives right now on newt gingrich for his attacks on mitt romney, about his record at bain capital, and senator demint himself, though he says he's not going to inch tkoerbgs has giv to endorse has given a valuable

quasi endorsement by criticizing rick perry and newt gingrich for criticizing mitt romney. jon: it's kind of interesting, noted conservatives, including karl rove have said that mitt romney needs to do a better job about answering the questions about bain capital and what happened during his time as the head of that firm. i'm getting word that the romney campaign has decided that he's done with that, he's going to -- he's done playing defense and he's going on the offense. surprise you? >> well, no. i think that he's -- he's going to go on offense and he's also going to stay on defense. he really needs to answer questions about his record at bain, because there are manufacturing hubs and high unemployment in starts of south carolina where voters really will be very concerned about this issue.

once they see either the 27-minute film distributed by the progingrich super pack or at least little clips of it in the ads that will blanket the airway. mitt romney will have some defense prepared but he will also be going on offense to try to change the subject and continue to hone his economic message, where that is the number one issue in south carolina and try to rise above as unstoppable presumptive nominee. jon: you have an interesting line in your article in the hill you call him a moderate flip-flopper who is to the left of not only every g.o.p. candidate but of every candidate in the race? >> jon huntsman has issues of the conservative base of the republican party because of his support for civil unions, and some of the thins he said about climate change. he has a strong fist alrecord as former governor of sue ta on taxes and spending there, an also has a pretty sure second amendment progun and pro-life record and that's why he calls

himself a consistent conservative. mitt romney has plenty, as former senator rick santorum has pointed to, plenty of inconsistencies in his record that the candidates could be attacking right now. bain is the subject. as santorum has said or refused to criticize romney on bain, there is plenty in his record that makes him an inconsistent conservative. jon: thanks. jenna: as we shift our view overseas, new demands nor answers after a western journalist dies covering syria's up rising. a french tv cameraman killed at a progovernment rally yesterday in a city that's seen some of the worst violence since the revolt ten months ago. it's rare for syria's regime to allow journalists into the country. there are reports that he was approved. the government is blaming the killing on, quote, terrorists. the information coming out of that country, rina ninnan has

the story. >> reporter: this is the first foreign journalist to be killed in syria since the ten-month uprising began. he was an award-winning journalist who worked for france 2 television. he was part of a group of 15 journalists who were graduating on a government-sponsored trip. this is their first time into the volatile region of holmes. they were hit by a tpwra made. this was lobed at very close range and they were clearly targeted. the government blames the opposition, and the opposition blames the government. it took place in a heavily demilitarized zone. it would have been difficult for anybody but the military to penetrate. they are all calling for the death to be investigated. the journalist's partner happened to be there at the time of this is death. today there were rallies throughout syria in honor of this journalist calling on more

attention, international attention to the situation. arab monitors brought in to assess the situation by the arab league are quitting, some of them saying they just cannot stop the violence and the bloodshed there. a lot of people find their mission to be a joke. meanwhile we are hearing from the man who was syria's vice president from 1984 until 2005, that is when he was exiled. he tells an israeli arab newspaper that the only way to change the situation in syria and to end the bloodshed is for a foreign military strike to take place. until then, jenna it's pretty much status quo. jenna: still so many questions, thank you so much for the breaking news on that today. thank you. jon: a fox news alert. this might not surprise you coming out of washington, but the justice department, an arm of the administration has issued a memo saying that in its opinion the recess appointment

of richard cordray to head the consumer finance protection bureau and some other recess appointments that president obama made to the national labor relations board, those are perfectly legal. the president it says has discretion to conclude that the senate is unavailable to perform its advise and consent program, this despite the fact that the senate was convening periodic proform a. it's very information when it comes to the constitution alquestions. the justice department says in their opinion those appointments were legal. in the meantime let talk a little bit more about the white house. the obama administration is awaiting the blessing of afghan president hamid karzai in order to resume peace talks with the taliban. a tentative deal would include transferring five afghan detainees from guantanamo bay to

qatar. hamid karzai refused to go along before with a taliban deal. what is the latest. >> reporter: administration officials caution that there is no tentative deal in place, any details, in terms of detainees, et cetera, still being worked out. they stress that, look, all along their goal has been to find reconciliation here with the taliban in order to end the long u.s. war in afghanistan. they see an opening here now, they are going to send mark grossman a key u.s. diplomat to the region to meet with president hamid karzai. president obama met with the prime minister from q qatar. secretary clinton cautioned this is far from a don deal, take a listen. >> we remain committed to the red lines, that we have consistently laid out, namely,

that both the afghan government, and the international community must see the insurgents renounce violence, break with al-qaida, and support the laws and constitution of afghanistan, including protecting the rights of women and minorities. >> reporter: now, all kind of other hurdles beyond what secretary clinton just laid out. you also have the fact that president hamid karzai is to say the least a wildcard in all of this. no one ever really knows what he's going to do, and whether he would sign off on this. also in terms of the taliban wanted prisoners to be released from the u.s. military prison at guantanamo, that would obviously be very, very controversial, and the u.s. would have to walk very delicately in these negotiations before just letting those prisoners out, jon. jon: many questions ahead. ed henry at the white house. jenna: tensions exnighting now between the west and iran. there is a lot of big questions about whether or not there is a

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jenna: welcome back, everyone, we'll take you out to colorado now where a snowstorm is khroeg down the morning commute in denver. total snowfall range from 3.5 to 8 inches in that area leaving motorists slipping and sliding on their way to work. weather related accidents reported, most of them minor, but still very scary. >> it's awful slushy, my windshield wipers aren't working. >> lots of people sliding, hitting the curb. it was bad. >> it's utter chaos. jenna: you need those windshield wipers, right? jon: you do. jenna: you've got to get those fixed.

they warned roads could turn icy and temperatures dropped into the dingell digits overnight. a little sunshine is in the forecast so that will help things out. jon: colorado gets more sunshine than florida i'm happy to remind you. jenna: really. jon: it's true. more on the possible tornado touching down in north carolina now. buildings flattened, at least 15 people injured in burke and rutherford counties, including an elderly woman who was pulled from what was left of her home. two of the injuries considered serious. the storm downed trees and power lines causing some outages. emergency crews have set up a command center in ellenboro and command centers are open there. jenna: we asked the question how normal it is to have a tornado this time of year. janice dean is with us from the weather center, is that normal. >> reporter: you can have tornadoes any month of the year, jenna. yeah, that was certainly kind of a rogue tornado. we just had one report and unfortunately did some major damage to north carolina.

we did have an outlook yesterday for the slight risk of severe weather across the southeast, so we did have a little bit of a heads up, but we didn't have a tornado watch in effect, unfortunately, you know, those folks, our hearts and prayers are out with them this morning. let's take a look at the system. we have two system, one tkoeufg across the great lakes region, the other that brought the destructive weather across the carolinas, that is pushing up in towards the northeast. i want to show you this is the only storm report we actually had on the map yesterday and they have not confirmed this from the national weather service. it does look like it was a tornado hitting north carolina. and the tooth average is devastating to that area. the northeast if you have a flight coming in or departing you want to call ahead. we've got both of these systems kind of taking aim towards the northeast, and with that rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow, just kind of a mesas w mess as

we go further in time. we have the lingering lake-effect-snow. back to you. jenna: looks like there will still ab football game in new england. >> reporter: there should be. they are hearty folks out there. jenna: just moving the forecast in that direction. we'll look forward to the weekend with the weather we're having across the east coast now. jon: are you keying me up for a go, denver. jenna: no, we started with colorad colorado. i was bringing it full circle to tebow. jon: tensions between iran and the rest seem to be mounting by the day as that nation refuses to halt its nuclear activities. now comes word that a covert war may be coming our way. an expert on that next. before you hop on your next bus ride, take a look at this. dash cams revealing many

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jenna: iranian president ahmadinejad traveling today in cuba and ecuador in what some are calling a tour of tie ran the, or the hate america tour depending on who you talk to. it tomorrow's as secretary of state hillary clinton strongly denies the united states is behind the assassination of a high ranking nuclear scientist in iran this week. they say there is a campaign of assassinations, bombings, cyber attacks and defections targeting

irans. "the new york times" is pointing to israel for all of this. kkt mcfarland is a national security analyst. they say if israel was behind some of these actions that the united states may not know about it. would that really be the case in that scenario? >> we are already at some kind of a covert war with iran. by we, who does that mean, it probably means israel, make the united states, maybe the european allies and perhaps even some of the sunni arab states all who don't like iran and want to stop their nuclear program. would any of these countries be acting independently? yes. would they all be acting in concert that is highly unlikely. we are not talking about a war of bombs and battle ships we are talking about a war of sanctions, sabotage, spying, assassinations. any one country may be doing some of them but not all of them. jenna: what actions are effective at this time when it

comes to iran and its death. much a nuclear program? >> we've always known that we would get to the point of vehicle opening. we are there now, this is the year of reckoning. i think the next couple of months are going to be the crisis point. we've always known one option which is let iran get the bomb that means the entire region will nuke up, all the other countries will want nuclear weapons and then the next war in the middle east, and there is always another war in the middle east, it could go nuclear. on the other hand we could stop iran's bomb program. how? one way would be to bomb iran's nuclear sites. the other which would be what we are trying now, which is sanctions, sabotage, spy, assassinations. we are always looking for the third alternative, we've been having a lot of trouble finding it. president bush tried to create a pro-american strong iraq that would stand as a counter to iran he failed. what president obama has done is to try diplomacy, to build

coalition, that's failed. the third covert war is a lot better than the other two options as long as it can be effective. so far all it's done is delay the program not stop it. jenna: some have suggested and i'm thinking of senator santorum on the campaign trail that the united states has to get more overt about his actions against iran not just talking about the anxiouses and talking about oil embargoes, more directly involved whether that means military actions or taking responsibility for some of these actions inch vied of iran because he says that sends a message, and we need that message across the world that we are not going to stand for a nuclear iran. what do you think about that when it comes in foreign policy? >> we may ultimately get to that point in another couple of months. i think there is an opportunity in the next month, even, to have anxiouses that might actually topple the iranian government. we've had sanctions before and they haven't worked. now we are talking about a very different type of a sanction, a sanction that may in fact have trouble for us by having an increase in oil prices but that could collapse the iranian

economy and the iranian government. when i worked for ronald reagan, how did we end the cold war? reagan so pushed and so stressed the soviet economy that ultimately its own people came up and said we want a different regime. right now the brits in the last month have passed serious sanctions. the u.s. on new year's eve did and the brits and europeans are set to do it at the end of sanctions. this is in fact a blockade against iranian oil. iranian oil won't get to market. we are not blockading with gun boats but with banks. and if that happens and if it happens quickly you could see a crash of the iranian economy which gets 80% of iranian gdp comes from the oil business. if they can't get that oil to market they don't have enough money to run the government, to give subsidies to the people, to pay for their weapons program. jenna: that becomes again the year of reckoning as you pointed out is this year. we also have an election coming up. a lot going on inside that country. some suggest that that

assassination was an internal one. a lot more. we look forward to having you back to talk more about it. >> reporter: all the public buses in washington d. kr-frplt fitted with a dashboard camera, which automatically starts filming if the bus driver has to slam on the breaks or makes an erratic turn or something. we'll show you some of the video first obtained by a local media outlet in d.c. take a look. >> oh! oh, my god. >> reporter: look at that, that mini van goes right into the bus in front of it. lots of close calls, ignored stop signs, people crossing in front -- look at that, a woman

literally has to run out of the way. all of these shot over the past summer. that guy that walks into the crosswalk only to get clipped by the bus. thankfully, he walked away unharmed. most of the bus drivers have already been disciplined, and the transit agency in d.c. says the drivers who get a warning or a suspension three times in the course of one year are fired. the transit people also say these examples are the exception and that there are hundreds of videos where d.c. metro bus drivers do the right thing. but as you just saw, when the drivers screw up, they do it big time. jon: don't walk in front of the bus. >> reporter: good lesson. jon: rick, thanks. well, he came in first in iowa, right? jenna: he did, and he took the top spot in new hampshire as well. one of the big questions as we head to south carolina, is there anything that can stop mitt romney's momentum? a lot of doubters still on the sidelines. larry sabato looks into his crystal ball for us, and that's next.

jenna: it is only january 123th, but we're -- 12th, but we're already talking about this; new concerns that 2012 could be remembered as the year of the foreclosure. this after last year saw the lowest number of foreclosures since 2007, so one of the questions is what's prompting all these concerns that it could reverse course from the meager improvement we've seen? adam shapiro of the fox business network has more on owl of this.

so -- on all of this. why should we be worried? >> reporter: because that immaterial priewment you just mentioned isn't because we're clearing out the system, it's a slowdown. as we show you video of foreclosed homes, realtytrack, their ceo said what we saw in 2011 was a full delay. here are some of the numbers to put this in perspective. total filings on properties in the foreclosure president in 2011 totaled 1, 887,p 777 that was down from 2009 by 33%, but the only reason we were down is the banks slowed down the process. you remember they got in trouble because of the robo-signing scandal, and that's still ongoing, so they slowed down the process. expect that process to pick up this year. jenna: we hope to see you back on camera soon, adam. there you are. [laughter] we were trying to fix our camera shot. we got a great look at all the house video we have, and an interesting report that we might

see a pick-up in activity because the banks say we need to slow this down, otherwise we've got to be more careful. so are we seeing a pickup in activity as far as foreclosures go? >> reporter: simpling answer, yes. realty trac numbers, the average day that it took to move a house through the process nationwide was about 348 days. in places like florida, new york, new jersey, it was in excess of 800 days. so it was a very slow process. but you're seeing that tick up. and one thing to keep your eye on, in the next week or two, possibly three, we should see the department of justice announcing that they've got a settlement with the major banks over the robo-signing scandal. once that's cleared out of the way and the banks have paid anywhere from 20-25 billion in fines, watch them pick up the speed. bottom line, the backlog will become front end, and we will see that process ramp up and more foreclosures this year.

jenna: some are suggesting that's what the housing market needs, to get all of this out of the system and, hopefully, start anew in one way or another. we'll watch this very closely, adam. thank you. >> reporter: yep. ♪ jon, you know, if you've been watching our coverage on america's election headquarters, you know that mitt romney is on a roll after going two for two in iowa and new hampshire, he is now the candidate to beat as we head to the south carolina primary. his rifles have just -- rivals have just nine days to chip away at governor romney, so can he be stopped? let's ask the man with the crystal ball, larry sabato, director of the university of virginia's center for politics. as you gaze into the crystal ball, larry, can he be stopped? >> it's very, very tough to stop him. he's now a clear favorite even in south carolina. if you doubt that, just look and see what senator jim demint did. he's not endorsing romney as he

did in 2008, but he's already said that he will probably win, that romney will win the south carolina primary, and many of demint's associates have now moved to romney. so it tells you that that momentum out of new hampshire is really mattering in south carolina. jon: yeah and -- >> but, you know, jon, you just never know. jon: demint also said he would be happy with any of the candidates who are out there, i guess that's kind of a weak endorsement of mitt romney should he go ahead and get the nod. according to what you say, he's going to. at any rate, you say romney could not have scripted a better opening to this campaign. give us some examples as to why. >> well, the major reason is, of course, a few months ago i don't think anybody was betting that mitt romney would win iowa even by eight votes. that was the big surprise early on. new hampshire was always considered in his corner, though not necessarily by that margin. but, you know what i think a lot of people are missing, if you

look at the exit poll data in the two cop tests we've had -- contested we've had, romney is doing best with self-identified republicans. it's the republicans who are really siding with romney. why does that matter? because if he can get past south carolina, he goes into the first primary in florida where they restrict it solely to republicans. he got 40% in new hampshire, 49% in new hampshire among self-identified republicans. that gives romney a big leg up in florida if he isn't tripped up in south carolina. jon: kind of interesting, too, that the two guys who probably had the best chance against him in south carolina, who had the best organizations and the most money to spend have really seen their fortunes fall. >> yes, gingrich and perry for sure, and then santorum is coming in. he's got real money now. look, if conservatives could coalesce somehow around one candidate, could get two of them

out of the race, one in, they would have a real chance to beat romney in south carolina. the conditions are right for beating him there. but that's unlikely to happen. why would either perry or gingrich drop out, or santorum for that matter, why would any of them drop out when they have a chance, one final chance to stop romney? jon: you say that evangelical voters did not exactly jump on the romney bandwagon in iowa. there are a lot of them in south carolina as well. but, what, their vote is going to get split among those other candidates that you were just mentioning? that's the key right there, the fact is you have the same kind of conservative split with different kinds of candidates than you had in iowa. so you've got, you have the situation that's ideal for romney much as it was for john mccain four years ago. if you can keep enough conservatives in the race, it becomes very difficult to beat the candidate who is, perhaps, the nonevangelical candidate,

and that is mitt romney in south carolina. jon: larry sabato from the university of virginia center for politics, he's on a roll. thanks, larry. >> thanks so much. jenna: they put their mark on the 2010 midterm elections, but what effect is the tea party having in the republican primary season this year? some political watchers say not that much, but is that truly a fair assessment? we're going to talk more about it coming up. and superstars jay-z and beyonce's baby girl just born getting star treatment inside their super fancy hospital room. next. ♪ my name is ron orsini,

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well, here's the miniature version of that. a car that left the henry hudson parkway on new york city's upper west side about an hour and 45 minutes ago. the driver claims that another driver hit her, she left that roadway, went across the bike path that you see the fire rescue crews standing on and into the hudson river. at first authorities thought there might have been other people in the car. they sent the police dive team to check the water, but we're told she was the only occupant. she's okay. car went through the guardrail, but they rescued her, and everything is fine. no major miracle on the hudson, i guess you'd say, but i'm sure she's happy. jenna: we're glad that she's fine. it's not exactly easy to veer off the road to do that, so i'm sure there's a lot more to the story, but glad everybody involved is okay so far. looks like they have everything under control. we're going to move on to this next story making national news, we're getting a look at the hospital room where beyonce's

baby came into the world. and there's a reason why we're taking a look at this, right, rick? it's a little bit different than your normal hospital room. >> reporter: not your typical maternity ward suite, and i honestly don't know why anybody would be shocked like this. if you're an a-list celebrity like jon scott or jay-z or beyonce, you do things in style. hospitals know that. lennox hill here in new york city knows that. take a look at some video, some pictures obtained by tmz. this is the brand new maternity suite which looks much more like ahouse at the waldorf-astoria. this is where beyonce gave birth to her little girl, little ivy blue. that's the bed that jay-z was able to relax on during the labor -- you know, labor can take a long time. jon: oh, yeah. >> reporter: you know, dads need to rest as well. jon: you know it. >> reporter: never mind some patients say they got no such treatment, but of course they

didn't. take a look at a typical maternity room in the hospital. it's not bad, but it's not the four seasons, that's for sure. [laughter] look at her, she looks ready to get out of there. by the way, tmz reports the new suite wasn't built specifically for beyonce, but the hospital always intended for her to be the fist one to use it -- jenna: oh, okay. >> reporter: it's open to the public if you have that kind of cash. jenna: you have four kids, right, rick? jon has four. so you both are telling me that's not the normal hospital room i should expect? jon: it was so long ago in my case, i can't remember what -- >> reporter: well, i remember clearly, my youngest, our twins who are 19 months old, and hi wife and i were in a room that looked nothing like that. jenna: okay. jon: and it's hard work, isn't it, rick? delivering -- jenna: you know what? both of you, just stop it. >> reporter: very hard. jenna: i may come for pointers from parenting for both of you. as far as giving birth, we'll leave that to the mothers. thank you very much. thanks, you guys. [laughter]

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jon: looking up into the night sky might never feel the same again thanks to nasa's super high-tech planting telescope. we're getting a look at the universe like never before. among the discoveries, real-life versions of luke skywalker's home planet as portrayed in star star wars, worlds that see two suns rise and set every day. there's even evidence of conditions that could sustain life. michio kaku is professor of physics at the university of new york. it wasn't too long ago that we kicked poor pluto out of our system, but now they're finding planets everywhere. >> we are awash in planets. this is a game changer. 700 planets have been discovered every few days strong hers sabin go, bingo, bingo, and we find another planet in space. jon: and these are, obviously, not in our solar system, they are orbiting other stars.

>> they are many hundred of light years away, so we're not going to be able to visit them for a few million years. the holy grail of all this is to find a carbon copy of the earth among that 700. so far we've found three that look very close to earth, but they're a little bit too close the mother star. but this year we may actually say bingo and get an exact carbon copy of the earth in space. jon: all right. but even if you find that, as you said, these things are so far away. i mean, the universe is a monstrous place. we're not going to be visiting them anytime soon. >> the sat turn rocket would require a few hundred thousand years to reach some of these planets. however, radio signals. perhaps we can eavesdrop on some radio signals, perhaps i love lucy from outer space, leave it to beaver. [laughter] maybe we'll be able to capture that with our tv sets. jon: i'd love to see the sitcoms they're watching out there.

and planets actually have two suns? >> this is right out of star wars, we have planets of all sizes and shapes. in star wars the planet went around a double-star system. we once thought that to be unstable, but there it is. a planet going around a double-star system just the way george lucas predicted it in star wars. >> so you would have the same kind of thing we have with the sun and the moon at two different times. >> that's right. the sun would rise twice and set twice. jon: i would hate to do the tide charts on that planet. that would be a mess. >> imagine commuting, daylight twice and sunset twice? jon: thanks for bringing us some insight. jenna: back on earth now, jon, some new plans for peace talks with the taliban. apparently, the white house is onboard, but what truly would these talks accomplish, and why

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>> reporter: rick folbaum at the assignment desk, this is a shot from ecuador right now. this is the iranian version of air force one. president ahmadinejad onboard this jet as he arrives in that country to meet with its president. amid reports that there's a covert war taking place against iran. and then a couple of campaign events we want to show you. this is palmetto, south carolina, an event, the palmetto seniors' show. newt gingrich will be appearing there later on. but mitt romney is already in florida. he's campaigning both in south carolina and today in florida. that's a shot in west palm beach. of course, the florida primary is coming up right on the heels

of south carolina, and so he is in the sunshine state as well. some of the stories we're following for you as the second hour of "happening now" starts right now. ♪ jenna: rick was just talking about the republican campaign is heating up in south carolina, the candidates are fighting for that ticket to florida, some of them are there already. just laying the ground work. we're glad you're with us, everybody, as we watch this process together, i'm jenna lee. jon: let's talk a little politics, shall we? jenna: why not? jon: i'm jon scott. newt gingrich, rick perry, rick santorum all trying to make inroads among south carolina's conservative voters, hoping to become a possible alternative to mitt romney. our jonathan serrie is live in south carolina at lizard's thicket, a popular place where they like to say country cooking makes you good looking. [laughter] and you are, jonathan. >> reporter: that's right. thank you, jon, i appreciate

that. rick perry was here pressing the flesh earlier in the day. you know, talking about mitt romney is a mixed blessing being on the top of the polls, and he is the presumed front runner here in south carolina. so you have these three candidates going after him trying to portray themselves as the romney alternative. listen. >> south carolinians get it when it comes to the issue of freeing up from taxation, from overregulation, from overlitigation, but particularly from washington d.c. >> reporter: rick perry is trying to court the tea party voter, the tea party has a strong influence in south carolina. a lot of people sympathetic to their cause of less government, lower taxes, less regulation. rick perry also is touting his service with the air force. other than ron paul, he is the only candidate -- he and ron paul the only candidates in the gop field who served active duty military. he's vying for the support of the state's large population of

military families and veterans. listen. >> military service, i think, is always important. if you're going to lead our country in service, you kind of have to have that experience. >> reporter: looking at some of the other candidates, rick santorum, a catholic who really made some inroads with conservative christian voters in iowa, is trying to do the same we van gel calls here in south carolina. conservative christians play a strong role particularly in the up state, and that is where mr. santorum was, in the small town of greer earlier today, where he said more people go to church on sunday than all the sporting events combined in a year. and newt gingrich making no apologies for his attacks on mitt romney's work in the private equity industry. the gingrich campaign trying to portray romney as more of a mover, more interested in moving money rather than creating jobs and, obviously, hoping that that

rez that its in a state that has experienced unemployment above 9% for the past three years. but each candidate is really hoping to consolidate the anti-romney vote. but until one does, these candidates run the risk of potentially fracturing that vote and giving the advantage to the front runner. so you're going to see a lot of active campaigning in this state leading up to the primary on the 21st. back to you. jon: jonathan serrie in blythe woods, south carolina. you making any recommendations there at the lizard's thicket, jonathan? guess he can't hear me. east that or he -- either that or he hasn't checked out the menu today. jonathan serrie, thank you. jenna: i'm sure he just didn't hear. you'd imagine reptile -- no, i'm sure there's something better than that on the menu. jonathan was pointing out romney's rivals are rolling out much sharper attacks, and romney's shaping a new message moving his campaign from defense to offense. what that offense looks like

could be so significant to the romney campaign. dana perino, that's the question, right? how to go on the offense in the right way. how would you advise romney here? >> i think one of the things that is working in his favor is that people who would not be inclined to have defended romney in the past or have stuck up for him in the past have actually found the attacks from gingrich and perry and others to be so distasteful that they're defending him. that's a really good way in order to get your message out, you can stay above the fray and let others defend you against attacks. jenna: so you wouldn't hit it dead on? >> >> he's going to have to, and from one account i read this morning, they are preparing to and he is going to have to be very plain spoken. and i think that he can also elevate it and talk a little bit more about the system that we have is capitalism. jenna: and let me -- >> not be condescending of let me tell you how the economy works type of thing, but to be very clear with what he did and move on with the bigger picture. jenna: romney's been criticized

for not being conservative enough, and now it seems the criticism within the gop race is he's too much of a capitalist. how -- those seem to be both very tough topics for one politician to have to combat. so how do you see that shift? >> well, i think what's happened is, actually, there's been a lot of media coverage about those attacks. so in some people's mind it might think that that's helping gingrich and perry. i actually think it's been devastating for them and that they are going to end up with very few votes in south carolina. and while people, the people of south carolina might not have liked mitt romney at first, when they look at the rest of the field, they think that he's going to -- he's the most plausible one to win, and they're going to have to decide if he's conservative enough. jenna: let's just say it's halloween, and you're dressing up as the spokesperson for the dnc. let's just say that that's your role. >> with better hair. [laughter] jenna: let's just say that's what you're doing. how would you take these attacks

amongst the gop, how would you use them for your benefit? it seems in a lot of ways that some of these gop candidates like gingrich and perry, you could take exactly what they're saying, and it's what's coming out in the dnc newsletters every day. >> well, nobody likes to be taken out of context, and yesterday even joe biden, vice president, said that mitt romney had been taken out of context, and then he proceeded to attack mitt romney by taking him out of context, and all you need to do in an ad is take that snippet of your fellow republican to your right criticizing your past, that's all you have to do. plant a little seed of doubt. again, president obama doesn't even have to do it himself. he can have other people do it for him. jenna: a big news item today is this 30-minute, i guess we're calling it a documentary, from a super pac on behalf of gingrich. in your expertise, have you ever seen anything like this, it's a 30-minute advertisement or documentary, what the word is, how effective is something like

that versus, you know, your two-minute commercial on television? >> there is a trend for longer form documentaries about issues. and those are quite popular and do well. i think this is new. i believe, though, that if you can't get your message across in 28 seconds, it is very hard to expect people in their busy lyes to sit down and watch a 28-minute documentary that is all about the stuff you read in the paper yesterday. so i think they spent a lot of money on something that probably is not going to have a big impact. jenna: what's the strongest message you're hearing from the gop, what do you think's working this week versus the last two weeks? >> i really think it is asking yourself if you're better off today than you were four years ago, and thinking ahead, would you be better off in another four years? i believe that there is a majority of the country who believes they would not be. and now it's going to be up to whoever the republican nominee is to sharpen the message and make sure that they get it out in 28 seconds or less. jenna: not 28 minutes. >> and somebody needs to give a really great speech.

jenna: did you think the one from romney in new hampshire -- >> yes, it felt like the first time he'd taken a deep breath in years. his wife was glowing, his whole team was there cheering. um, but now i think in the next three weeks i would imagine after florida you'll see some sort of big policy-setting speech -- jenna: do you announce that? because newt gingrich tried to do that yesterday and say we have a really big speech coming out at 9:00 in the morning. do you announce it, or is it just something that happens? >> i think you would announce it after you felt pretty confident you had the nomination, otherwise it's just noise. yesterday morning when speaker gingrich gave that press conference, pretty much at that point everybody was still talking about the night before in new hampshire, and you thought his announcement was going to be something big, and it ends up not making much of an impact at all. and then he has to answer the questions about romney, and his spokesperson said, no, he's not pulling back, he is. i think they've got people confused. jenna: interesting, we'll watch

for you on "the five" today. easy the remember. 5 p.m. eastern time. jon? jon: jenna, the state department is making plans to resume peace talks with the taliban. first, though, that department needs the approval of afghan president hamid karzai. negotiations last month collapsed when karzai refused to go along with a u.s./taliban deal. doug mckelway joins us live from the white house. doug? >> reporter: that's right, jon. the state department says that if president karzai does not give his blessing to these potential talks, that they simply will not happen. and now today there is a new potential obstacle to the resumption of these talks, and it comes in the form of that videotape which is making its way across the internet which purportedly shows four u.s. marines desecrating the bodies, urinating on the bodies of taliban fighters or afghanistan insurgents. leon panetta has promised a full investigation of this videotape, we don't know for a fact that it is, indeed, u.s. marines.

and moments ago secretary of state clinton offered her assessment of this call for an information by secretary panetta. here's secretary clinton. >> i join him in condemning the deplorable behavior that is reflected in this video. it is absolutely inconsistent with american values, with the standards of behavior that we expect from our my tear personnel and that, you know, the vast, vast majority of our military personnel -- particularly our marines -- hold themselves to. >> reporter: the secretary did not conjecture in any way how this videotape might affect the attempts to jump-start the peace talks with the taliban, but we did hear from a high ranking government official who told "the wall street journal" that this tape, saying, quote, such action will leave a very, very bad impact on the peace efforts. a taliban representative speaking to reuters said the tape will have no impact on peace talks. so we'll see. another controversial aspect of

these peace talks is they may be contingent upon the release of five taliban fighters from guantanamo bay to be sent to the gulf nation of qatar where they'll be held in some kind of detention. we know the taliban has recently opened a diplomatic office there, and these peace talks will likely happen in qatar. ambassador mark grossman enroute there this weekend to try to jump-start these talks. jon? jon: do i see bright sunshine and shadows there at the white house? >> reporter: bright sunshine. the clouds are shoplifted and a shiny day here in d.c. jon: i guess it's going to break. doug mckelway, thank you. jenna: sort of proves our next point here. while most of the nation is experiencing this mild winter, alaska just can't seem to catch a break. you have heavy snowfall once again in the community of cordoba. they've seen upwards of 15 feet of snow since november 1st, and more could fall today.

the situation is so desperate, they've called in the national guard to help dig them out. in the meantime, a russian tanker is struggling to deliver much-needed fuel as well. dan springer is tracking the story live from seattle. lots of issues up in alaska, dan. >> reporter: oh, i tell you, jenna, you know, alaska conditions are a hearty group, i've been up there a lot, and they're used to extreme weather, but this is absolutely ridiculous. cordoba is close to setting a record for the all-time snowiest winter, and they have three more months of winter to go. they already set a record in november and december. the biggest problem right now is rain which is making that snow heavier on rooftops and turning the streets into a slushy lake. several roofs have collapsed from the weight of 15 feet of snow. the national guard is helping clear roads, homes, roofs with special shovels and heavy equipment, but it is a slow grind. they're also on hand to respond in case there's a major

avalanche, a threat made a lot worse by the rains. the weather has paralyzed this fishing town of 2200 people. kids have missed, get this, 25 days of school. they might be doing make-up days in august. >> usually it snows, and it rains, then it snows and it rains, but this winter it's just snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed. >> reporter: meantime, the problem is ice in the bering sea just off the coast of nome in northwest alaska. there is a dramatic effort to deliver 1.3 million gallons of fuel to nome. an early november storm prevented a barge from making the annual delivery. right now nome is out of diesel fuel and only a couple months' supply of the all-important heating oil. the coast guard is lead ago russian oil tanker into nome, but conditions are rough, and progress has been very slow. they are hoping to have delivery by the weekend, but it is not guaranteed by any means. if they can't get all that fuel into nome by the next couple of

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jenna: right now some new information in a few crime stories we're keeping an eye on for you here in the newsroom. first, to the parents of a virginia college student searching for answers today after their son vanishes on a trip to new york city. he's 22-year-old ian burnett, he hasn't been seen since december 30th, and still so many questions about where he is and what could have happened. thatn the meantime, lawyers for deadly connecticut home invasion now asking for a new trial. they argue joshua komisarjevsky was not granted a probable cause hearing which is mandated by the constitution. is this legal wrangling? we're going to talk more about that later on in the show.

and a group of amish men due in a kentucky court today. they could get jail time for refusing to mark their horse-drawn buggies with reflective triangles. douglas kennedy did a big story for us. jon: imagine you're mahmoud ahmadinejad, you've got huge problems at home; a currency that's tanking, sanctions, voters who hate you and your superiors, the mullahs who actually run the place, they think you're a bum bler. so what do you do? you get out of town to try to forge ties with some other world leaders. right now ahmadinejad has been meeting in countries like venezuela and ecuador ahead of possible new western sanctions over his country's nuclear program. steve harrigan is following this story from our miami bureau. he's looking for friends, steve, huh? >> reporter: that's exactly right, jon. ahmadinejad is looking for

friends, for allies, and he's finding them among leftist latin america leaders in the america's backyard. he's just finished a round of talks with the castro brothers in cuba, arrived a short time ago in ecuador. these allies could become useful if sanctions do tighten on iran, useful to move raw materials and money, useful, also, for diplomatic cover. it's important, though, to keep in mind the major players, brazil, argentina, mexico, none of these rolled out the carpet for ahmadinejad. of course, the alliance that concerns u.s. policymaker, that is iran and venezuela. the two have a number of economic agreements but also some military agreements about which little is known. earlier this week ahmadinejad stood next to hugo chavez, and chavez joked about the two countries uniting in an attack on the united states. [speaking spanish] >> translator: we are going to take aim at washington, and they say some big cannons and some

missiles are going to pop out, and we're going to attack washington. that's almost what they are saying. [speaking spanish] >> reporter: chavez, of course, continues to be a real mystery for many people to understand. he also pointed to a hill at one point and said we have a nuclear bomb, an atomic weapon hidden inside that hill and it's going to pop out. jokes like this, reckless speech makes many dismiss chavez as a real threat, but there are concerns that venezuela is a country that has not just oil, but uranium as well, and there are concerns that iran has already begun to map and mine some of vens wall lay's uranium. jon: chavez, what a jokester. steve harrigan, thanks. jenna: no comments on that. we'll draw the line there. one of our big stories today in the economy comes from these new jobs numbers we get out once a week. these are not exactly the numbers economists had predicted. what it tells us about the economy, what it means for the year ahead, connell mcshane is

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jenna: paying close attention to what's happening with the jobs market these days in general, and one of the things we get are these weekly jobless numbers. this week we had a big spike in new claims for unemployment, the total jumping more than expected. take a look at the number, 399,000 americans filing for benefits last week, 24,000 more than the week before, and just the trend moving in the wrong direction for trends like this. connell mcshane is with us and here to tell us about what these numbers actually mean. >> well, i don't know that this number of itself means a lot, it might, but it does bring up a potentially disturbing trend in the job market. you look at 399,000, to back up for a moment, these are people filing for unemployment claims

for the first time. so we wanted to see this number below 400,000 consistently. it was there. people started saying, oh, the job market's getting there. it spikes up, not necessarily a good thing. here's the big question, did the economy start to look like it was getting better -- particularly the job market -- at the end of last year because people were just getting set for the holidays? companies were hiring for the hold days, consumers were spending more money, and if so, what's the effect this year? so i think that's something, and this number's not a very good sign that we need to watch closely. jenna: you think about the elections, that's november, you're going into the holidays again can and that feeling of the holiday spirit or maybe the effect on the economy could be there, so what do you see as far as the political ramifications, if you will, of the job market? >> well, every economic number we have has a political ramification. it's just the way it is. i think the bigger number to watch, and this'll be very interesting, 8.5% is the unemployment rate right now in the country.

now, what will happen? will the economy improve, the job market improve and that rate go up? that's very possible. it's not a prediction, i don't know if it's going to happen or not, but it could -- jenna: and that could be a good thing, right? >> yes. because if we measure people that are unemployed, and they have to tell the government when they're surveyed that they're looking for work. a lot of people have given up, so they're not technically counted as unemployed. as things improve, will those people get back into the work force b counted as unemployed, and as confusing as it is for me to explain that, imagine the task for the president. hey, the economy's improving. well, wait, the unemployment rate's going up. that might be a story we should watch out for. jenna: connell, thank you very much. connell mcshane from fox business. jon: you know the congressional coup that gave republicans the house majority, but that tea party movement seems a bit quieter in 2012, some even question whether the tea party has fizzled out entirely.

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jon: right now all eyes might be on south carolina but the florida republican press presidential primary is red hot. voting absentee ballot is underway two weeks before the official election. phil keating live in miami

with an update. phil? >> reporter: hi, jon. a clear sign this historic battleground swing state will deliver on that title come in november can be seen by record number of absentee ballots mailed out across the state from tallahassee. more than 400,000. that is more voters, more votes, than iowa and new hampshire combined. >> every election we always say, this is the most important election in our lifetime. i think that is the most important election of our lifetime. >> reporter: the result, that record number of florida republicans are voting early by absentee ballot and they are voting now. so far more 50,000 ballots have been returned to be counted on january 1st. 31st, rather. that is primary day in florida. and the campaigns are ramping up. we met up with volunteers for the romney, paul, perry and gingrich campaigns up in tam 5 -- tampa, chasing absentee ballot recipients

with phone calls and mailers trying to make up their minds before they mail them back. they said any campaign waiting for south carolina january 21st primary first to then shift gears in florida risks losing the big sunshine state. >> they have organized in most of the counties, each of the candidates. starting to send out mailers. some ads are running in key markets in the state. i think they realize if you wait to the week before you will lose a lot of votes in florida. >> reporter: the romney campaign not only has a double-digit lead in three florida polls right now but also leads in organization, boots on. ground. only campaign that is buying tv on the ground including a brand new spanish language spot. the polls show half the ñ voters are on the fence waiting to make up their mind in a few days or a few weeks a lot could change before the january 31st primary. candidates understand, they can't wait for south carolina. today, right now, romney is up in palm beach county at a public rally.

and has a fund-raiser tonight. gingrich arrives in miami tonight and will visit his brand new orlando campaign office for the state of florida tomorrow. jon? jon: every vote counts as florida saw in the 2000 election, phil keating. >> reporter: they can't forget that. jon: i'm sure they won't. thank you, phil. jenna: the tea party played a big roll in the 2010 elections but so far they don't seem to have much clout in the primary season at least according to pollster scott rasmussen who asked voters about the tea party. take a listen. >> republicans have a much more positive view of the tea party. in fact a majority of republicans say they still think the tea party is going to help but democrats overwhelmingly say, no, it is bad group. unaffiliated voters they're losing their taste for tea. jenna: losing their taste for tea. she has extensive ties to the tea party. columnist for "the daily caller" and fox news contributor. matt kibbee, freedomworks a strong supporter of the tea

party movement and gina lowden, radio show talk show host. you might not agree what scott as musen has to say overall but how has the tea party changed from 2010 and 2012. >> is a lot of misunderstanding about this moment. it is building out communities district by district. i will be in houston a couple days at saddle up houston and try to focus and get all the tea party activists choose one candidate for u.s. senate there. that is the hard work of changing the process that doesn't really capture the attention of the media or anybody else because we're not out there protesting on the streets. jenna: why are you choosing to focus locally, matt, if i follow up for a moment? >> that is the natural evolution after very sophisticated movement. where you win these fights is by changing opinion on

the ground neighbor to neighbor, face-to-face, and that machine will become the get-out-the-vote mechanism in that had impact in 2010. i think it is stronger this 2012 but you can't see it. jenna: gina, you've gone out publicly endorsed presidential candidates. you're choosing to go more national rather than local. tell us a little bit about who you are personally choosing to endorse and why you're choosing to do that. >> well, i am helping to recruit local candidates. we in fact today recruit ad local candidate against congressman bachus for local primary because of corruption going on there we have worked locally. i personally chose to endorse rick santorum, for two reasons. one i believe he will speak well to reagan democrats, being blue-collar candidate. i think that is what we need in this race. also i want to see a candidate accountable to the conservative constitutional type voter and i just, i don't see many of the

candidates in this race, if elected, i see them thinking of themselves having been elected in spite of the tea party sort of. i see rick san tan -- santorum knows he need us. if he ends up in the top spot he knows who to thank and be accountable to us. i think those are important reasons to support rick santorum. i'm doing that independently. jenna: one thing you mentioned one feels they might be elected in spite of the tea party. i like to talk to you a little bit about that. scott rasmussen's polling most of folks he polled have unfavorable opinion and they think the tea party movement will hurt the republican party in the 2012 election. where do you think that is coming from? >> as was pointed out previously the tea party doesn't do a lot of rallies now. in fact they do a lot of events on the local level. i can speak from experience on that. i spoke at number of events last year, tea party meetings, events they had on a local level. i'm set to speak at a number of events this year across

the country. people are very engaged and they are involved. if you look at the 2010 election it was mentioned that the tea party movement was very influential. i think they will be very influential in 2012 as well. jenna: there has been still a lot of blame going around, matt. i like to listen to the head of the dnc talking in new hampshire. she was talking about political discourse in washington overall since, basically this period of the financial crisis. take a listen to what she has to say. >> i hesitate to place blame but i have noticed it take a very precipitous turn with, towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth. tea party movement. what the tea party has done, they have taken it to a different level and so when they come and disagree with you, you're not just wrong. you're the enemy. jenna: matt, i hear what you're saying about this being local movement and really something from the ground up. that is a woman with a

national platform taking on tea party head on. what do you do about something like that? do you take that on? do you disregard it? what do you think that means for the movement overall? >> i think we do take it on and i think the men and women with tea party are particularly sick and tired of that kind of demagoguery coming from the democrats but to me it suggests that we continue to be important and relevant and powerful. if the head of the democratic establishment feels the obligation to say things like that, that's why the tea party brand has taken a beating but, i think that is the price of leadership. what she doesn't talk about are the issues that animate the tea party. those are still defining this election. we have republicans and democrats speaking to the fact that the budget needs to be balanced. speaking to the fact that the government has its foot on the economy and we can't create jobs. >> not only that, what about the "occupy wall street" movement? those on the left who are desperate to cling to something to, support their

initiatives and they focus on the "occupy wall street" movement who is being very disruptive, where you have the tea party who gets permits and go to their places to protest and go home. i mean are you kidding me? that is what the left is doing. jenna: gina, quick final thought here? >> just, i completely agree with what they both said. you know as long as they're continuing to mention us we're still extremely relevant or they wouldn't battle us. why would they? secondly hold us up to when the left decides to protest, the kinds of things they do and look at our beautiful, clean record. any park ranger in the country can tell you we leave places better than we find them. that speaks a lot to our character and exactly what we're planning to do in this next election. we work hard and continue to do that. jenna: sound like we have to talk to park rangers, verify that. interesting point and interesting to hear about the local activity. that is one of the questions we had in our editorial meeting whether or not we're maybe not covering local

events as much. maybe tea party movement is still ongoing in the local areas. that is something that we wanted to make sure we talked a little bit more about. thank you to you all. we look forward to having you back. >> thank you. jon: she has been the woman of a million careers a doctor, a vet, a princess. now some people are pushing for barbie to go bald. we'll tell you why. new gadgets changing the way we work and play. what is the next big thing? adam housley live at the consumer electronics show in vegas, baby. adam? >> reporter: jon, we have a new way to commute. this is the solo wheel. can go about 20 miles on one charge in two hours of charging. can do 10 miles per hour if i don't crash, we'll show you this and other items after the break here on the consumer electronics show. ♪ are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement

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about casey behind close the doors. we'll talk with geraldo rivera next.

ir♪ . ♪ . jenna: recognize that tune? well in '80s rocker rerecorded his smash hit to honor denver broncos quarterback tim tebow. rick, you have more on this? >> i do. i had a mullet when i listened to that song. who didn't love saint -- "st. elmo's fire" the brat pack movie the guy who wrote that song, john parr. he has rewritten to honor the quarterback. parr was inspired by tebow and modified his lyrics to

honor the way tebow lives his life. the athlete has become a superstar for his play on the field and how he talks openly about his faith off the field. it replaces "st. elmo's fire" with tim tebow's fire. i'm out there on one knee, a prisoner trying to break free. the chorus, broncos fan jon scott loves, i will be where the eagles flying higher and higher, i will be a man in motion. all i need is my broncos team take me where to tim tebow's fire. tim tebow in a new poll is america's favorite active athlete. he has his own song. a win against the pats and this guy will become a legend. jenna: true story. some of our viewers on twitter are asking he will endorse for president? may be a tebow endorsement would be a factor. >> they have up been courting him i'm reading. jenna: you never know. thank you.

>> sure. jon: i want him to beat the patriots first. >> me too. jon: there is new twist in the case of natalie holloway. a judge holding a hearing this afternoon in alabama on whether to sign a court order declaring the alabama teenager dead. more than six years ago or more than six years after i should say she disappeared in aruba. geraldo rivera is the host of "geraldo at large". he joins us live with that story. i can't imagine anything worse than a parent who has to go to court to ask for that kind of a declaration. >> bitter irony happening at the same time joran van der sloot, the man widely suspected killing natalie holloway has been convicted of killing stephanie flores in peru. jon: no connection on the timing? >> no connection on the timing but it is ironic, is it not he killed flores on the fifth anniversary on the disappearance of natalie holloway in aruba. the parents are asking finally this be put to rest because the likelihood of her ever being found which

was already astronomical long shot, enough time has gone by. they have to settle the estate and all the rest of it. meantime, he, the man they believed killed natalie holloway, joran van der sloot is going down for the count. we will see tomorrow what his sentence is in an outrageous twist though, jon, joran van der sloot is using the so-called psychological trauma he suffered by being accused killing natalie holloway as justification or at least mitigation of his criminal responsibility in the killing of the second woman, the peruvian woman, stephanie ramirez flores. like if he were a person who killed his parents and begged for mercy on the court because he was an orphan. it is real preposterous. he will spend most of the his adult life in peruvian prison in the high and december. jon: let he is hope he rots

up there at high altitude. caylee anthony upset with her lawyer. >> casey. jon: casey forgive me. >> we make the mistake because the child is so much on our minds. jon: she is upset with lawyer jose baez. we learned details about the case because of a release the judge okayed. you don't like what this judge did there. >> we're finding out know everything that casey anthony, when she was behind bars told the court appointed psychiatrist, and jon, that offends my basic sensibilities. i mean it is so unfair. first of all there is a doctor/client privilege. you tell a psychiatrist something you would never tell anyone else. to think judge belvin perry, who in every major decision in her trial sided with the prosecution would do this i think is really slander. the fact that she, it is of course interesting what she told the psychiatrist. that caylee, the toddler, she was accused of slaying

was born as result of a date rape when she was 18 years old. that is, you know, i, obvious interest. that's why we're all doing the story right now. but the fact that it was revealed in this manner think i is really a cheap shot and kind of a parting shot by judge belvin perry. jon: leaves you wondering whether she is telling the truth even to her psychiatrist? >> there is that. there is that. jon: geraldo, thank you. >> thank you, jon. jenna: john jon and geraldo you might want to listen to this. you won't find it on "project runway.". a new fashion statement making waves on the campaign trail. you can get a genuine rick santorum sweater vest and made in america. coming for you. ♪ . ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating?

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